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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comparing two columns in two files and printing a third based on a match Post 303023594 by RudiC on Wednesday 19th of September 2018 02:01:28 PM
Old 09-19-2018
PLEASE become way more stringent, disciplined when posting your requests:
- "FILE1" is NOT the same as "file1" in IT terms (admittedly beyond MS something)
- stick to the samples once given! your recent samples don't match the ones you gave in the first place. Nobody in here could follow you complaining on output that came from nowhere.

- USE code tags to enhance readabilty of your code and data; don't rely on the moderators to do it for you! You may receive infractions soon if you continue to resist.

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Originally Posted by dis0wned
Sorry, new to the forum. I will respect the code tags moving forward.




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Originally Posted by dis0wned
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------ Post updated at 01:50 PM ------

This was the output using the command that you supplied, it appended NA at the beginning of every line and made 0 matches
No surprise - there are NO matches! Please revisit your data.
 

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COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME
column -- columnate lists SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored. The options are as follows: -c Output is formatted for a display columns wide. -s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option. -t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays. -x Fill columns before filling rows. ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7). EXIT STATUS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ; printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME " ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1) HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length. BSD
July 29, 2004 BSD
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